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flameth

flameth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flame.

Meaning of flame

Verb

flame (third-person singular simple present flames, present participle flaming, simple past and past participle flamed)

  1. To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
    • The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
    • He flamed with indignation.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter II, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
  3. (Internet, ambitransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
    • I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.

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Flameth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flame.

Words near flameth in the dictionary

  1. flames of the forests
  2. flames out
  3. flames up
  4. flamestrike
  5. flamestrikes
  6. flameth
  7. flamethrower
  8. flamethrowers
  9. flamethrowing
  10. flamewar
  11. flameware

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